Bug #48014 If system drive is other than C, Windows service install is incorrect
Submitted: 13 Oct 2009 1:52 Modified: 7 Dec 2016 16:49
Reporter: John Bongiovanni Email Updates:
Status: Unsupported Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Installing Severity:S2 (Serious)
Version:5.1.39 OS:Windows (XP)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[13 Oct 2009 1:52] John Bongiovanni
Description:
If the hard drive is other than C, MySQL will install correctly on it. However, it will setup the MySQL service pointing to a program file on C, rather than on the correct drive.

How to repeat:
Install MySQL on a system with a hard drive other than C.
[13 Oct 2009 11:09] MySQL Verification Team
Thank you for the bug report. Could you please provide the output of the below command executed within a command prompt:

sc qc service_name | findstr BINARY_PATH_NAME

change service_name for the actual name. Thanks in advance.
[13 Oct 2009 23:03] John Bongiovanni
I can't do that now, as I've worked around it. However, I did look at this when the service failed to start. What it showed was the path name for mysqld, except that the root was C: instead of H: (where H is the letter of the real windows partition).
[26 Oct 2009 8:21] Valeriy Kravchuk
Please, check with a newer version, 5.1.40, and inform about the results.
[27 Nov 2009 0:00] Bugs System
No feedback was provided for this bug for over a month, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".
[7 Dec 2016 16:49] Yngve Svendsen
Posted by developer:
 
This relates to EOL (no longer supported) versions of MySQL Server. Furthermore, the old plain msi installers have been superseded by the MySQL Installer for Windows. Thus closing.